In an interview with Bola Ray on Starr Chat, Archbishop Nicolas Duncan Williams said he didn't have a smooth childhood including visit to many traditional shrines.  He indicated that he used to hear a lot of voices which he believed were a contention of the forces of ‘light and darkness’. He said that on that fateful night on which he lost his fingers, he heard some voices in his head.  He continued to say that the voices instructed him to light a candle and hold his fingers in the flame. The Man of God said that he obliged to the voice of the spirit thinking it was one of the sacrifices required to see him become successful.  When his fingers turned into ashes and the pain became unbearable, he screamed out alerting his siblings who rushed to the scene and took him to the hospital for medical assistance.   He was on admission at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for months after the ‘ordeal’. The action led to the loss of his fingers. He indicat...

The time is here again. Anxious Junior High School leavers who are done with Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) are ready to check their Senior High School placement. The Mfantsipims, the Adiscos, the Gey Heys and co. All the best! You can check the SHS placement from the comfort of your phones. A total of 424, 092 candidates representing 92 per cent, who qualified have been posted to the various senior high schools across the country under the Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS). From 8:00am today, candidates can log onto  www.myjhsresult.net  to know their SHS postings, a statement issued by the Ghana Education Service and signed by its acting Director General, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa said. Candidates who find any difficulty with their placement are advised to contact their Junior High Schools or the District/Regional Education Directorate for rectification.

Minister of Defence Mr Dominic Nitiwul has revealed that 10,000 national service personnel would be selected to embark on six months of military training as part of their national service next year. According to him, officials of the National Service Scheme (NSS) have already written to the military to inform them about the exercise. Mr Nitiwul made the revelation when he spoke to the media after appearing before the Public Account Committee (PAC) over the 2015 Auditor General’s Report. The PAC is currently holding public sittings on the Report of the Auditor General for the Public Accounts of Ghana for the year ended 31st December, 2015. Mr Nitiwul also stated that the law to allow service personnel to do military training already existed. He explained that the National Service Act allows service personnel to do two years of national service and six months of military training. He said the reason why for a long time the country could not undertake this programme was as a result of la...

The West African Examinations Council has released provisional results of the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) written in June. A statement issued by Waec on Monday said subject results of 1,298 candidates have been withheld while investigations are carried out. It said the Item Differentia Profile (IDP) software was used to detect cheating in the objective tests. Check it here

Bank of Ghana revokes UT Bank & Capital Bank licenses. GCB Bank to take over the two distressed entities. Says depositors need not panic. BoG approved a transaction that transfers all deposits & selected assets of UT Bank Ltd and Capital Bank Ltd to GCB Bank Ltd This action became necessary due to severe impairment of their capital The main offices and branches of UT Bank and Capital Bank will be under the control of GCB bank & will be opened at 1pm today.

Controversial Ghanaian actress Afia Schwarzenegger has been arrested for fraud according to a report on GhanaCelebrities . Afia is reported to have been arrested for defrauding Kiki Banson, singer Becca’s former manager. The actress is being held at the Nima Police Station, the report by GhanaCelebrities.com claims and has been charged with fraud, threatening, assault and insulting behaviour. Afia Schwarzenegger is married to Lawrence Abrokwah and has three children (two boys and a girl). via GhanaCelebrities

Aboagye Gyedu, a Deputy Health Minister, has said the quota allocated to public and private nursing training schools is an attempt to increase the quality of training and it has nothing to do with the payment of trainee allowances. Mr. Gyedu insisted that the quota put in place is to ensure and improvement of the quality of nurses. “We want to ensure that the training environment is optimum so that you come out with the best knowledge and skill that you need to serve our people.” Mr. Gyedu also stressed that “it has nothing to do with the payment of allowances that we promised our people.” Congestion is a major problem in these schools and in consultation with the Health Infrastructure Regulatory Authority and the Nurses and Midwifery Council, the government came up with this solution to the problem “What the nursing training colleges do is that, if you give them a quota, they exceed it. We are trying to be very firm, that this time around. In order to decongest the nursing and mid...